The Sun. — London, England, 1826-07-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP VIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. • Old Cohhett, who, at this critical juncture, is treading ao elosely, on the heels of Oliver -aml his gang, tells. the public that, on his entrance into Stockport, a man jumped the hinder part of the open chaise in which he was, and having got bold of his right. hand, held his arm up, and exclaimed, . " There, lads! is the long arm that reached the tyrants." Now, we tell the -vile monntes bank, to his - confusion, that this linens Focus trick is known to have been a preconeerted one, and that the man Who Seized his hand was the identical Healey, who, on Wed nesday last, advised the poor weavers of Stockport to come to their meetings with arms ; and recommended for that purpose, " knives II inches in length, and two broad at the bottom, fixed into a staff eight feet long."—Tintes., • All sorts of rumours are afloat with regard to supposed dissensions in the Cabinet. It would be difficult to name a period in which the situation of Ministers of this country was less enviable.. than it is at present ; and people natu rally suppose, that,Ministers, like other people, when things go wrong, wish to throw the fault of failure on each other. It is possible that a smile may be seen through the tears of the Lord Chancellor for the distresses of the country, on account of the supposed dilemma in which his liberal Colleagues are plaeed.—Morning Chronicle. It has been suggested that something in the shape of a Poll Tax might he adopted - towards the relief of the suf fering manufacturers. The population, for instance, being taken at twenty millions,. a contribution after the rate of one shilling a head from each individual would, raise one million of money, a sum which no kind of private subscrip tion is ever likely to reach. The Manifest objection to such a plan is, that the greatest part of it would fall upon the labouring classei, and, among the rest, upon thosi for 'whose' relief it is intended, To obviate this it is suggested, that it should be raised from the parish rates, that is, that each parish should be culled upon to contrihute its quota according to the known amount ofits population, with a proviso, that where any individuals in a parish contribute voluntarily any sum amounting to what this assessment would be, then that the latter should in such case be dis pensed with. We merely give this scheme in its crude state, as one which has reached us, without offering any opinion how far it may be either practicable or feasible.— Certainly, the total amount of private subscription does but little credit •to the humanity of the country, generally speaking. But we must repeat that we are anxious to see an end put to any system of mere charity; and that the funds for the relief of our suffering urtizana should, as soon as possible, be applied in furnishing them with employ ment. Labour is the real wealth of nations; and the man who maintains himself by means of his own industry is at once the most independent and useful member of society. ,-"Morning Herald. IVir,GREEN'S ACCOUNT of his ASCENSION Mr. Green, in giving an account of his hazardous ;lour neyi states, about 17 minutes past 10 o'clock, I ascended from the Gardens in Vauxhall; on first rising, my atten tion was fixed upon the numerous and highly respectable company, but my attention was very soon taken atom this splendid assemblage, and directed to the grandeur of the illuininated metropolis, rendered more . imposing in conse quence of' the numerous gas lights, and which enabled us to command a perfect view of the numerous buildings. In Regent's-park, the buildings were extremely beautiful from their great regularity. On quitting the gardens we kept-nearly in a line over the Thames for about two miles. We crossed the river three times. Notwithstanding the clouded state of the atmosphere, and being deprived of the light of the moon, we could distinctly see the earth, hut we determined not to hazard a descent until we had dear _ - - . eel the windings of the river,• bemuse, ,if there had been a strong wind, we should have been dragged into the stream. We could easily discern: the'cultivated from the uncultivated laud. In Battersea and Wandsworth, where the wheat .was ready fur cutting, it appeared like sheets spread on the land. The ploughed land was darker. The • trees appeared perfectly black, and the buildings were of the same colour. Of the bridges we could command a good view; those which were ornamented with gas or other lights, appeared like a row of lamps resting on the water. Battersea and - Putney-bridges, which are not light ed, appeared like dark planks resting on the water. Before Iquitted the earth, I had provided myself with ome of Sir Ilumphry Davy's safety lamps to enable me to make any experiment in.- the air. Supposing gas to es cape, it would mix with the atmosphere around the car, and form d compound air highly explosive. For this reason I took the Safety lamp,heautie there is no danger of com bustion when titc lamp is in use. On quitting the earth the barometer stood at 20 440ths, and when we had arrived at our greatest • alti whiCh was three quarters of a mile, it subsided to 213 2.loths. Ve .were not anxious to - attain a great elo. vatiou, but were desirous to avail ourselves of the first favourable place for landing, and return immediately to the gardens. - • In the evening, when the first pilot-balloon was launched, it welt a direction E. by S., but when at the elevation of, -half - a mile, it came into another current of air, Which car.' , iied it W. by N. At nine o'clock in the evening, three More pilot balloons Were launched ; two of these went in the direction of West by North, showing that the current of air which the first pilot balloon fell into was operating on the earth's surface. Our direction was West by North. We effected any easy landing in a ploughed field, on King George's Farm, Marsh4ate, Bichinotol. A horse-patrol was the, only person on the spot, but on account of the dead calm which prevailed, we required uo assistance. In -cortelusion, Mr', Green says, " we returned to Yank hall Gardens at two o'clock precisely, and were heartily congratulated by the numerous assembly." The gad was 'supplied front the - Iluenix Gas Works, and poiisessed a very great ascending power. In Ind, he says, he was never supplied with superior gas from any other establishment. A gentleman named 'Whittaker, aml Mr. Green's son, accompanied Mr. Green. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -:,8: NIANSION-HOUSE.—Saturday, three young men, fumed Vorefuol, Grady, and Clarke: were charged with • ' pick the on the "loyal l ' ' ' '.: t s te cl ui tat ti g r e l to , the E.,u tt i nterOUgt complaints recently made by gentlemen attending larking almut there, the I.;;O*lileimr of the "tuber of pick -P"cket4 ,e li re been very active in their en, 41eavours to apprehend ,them. he above three prisoners were, 013 Friday aftermxm, observed ‘ , .'e it at length taken into custtsi j ng g""emen.* pockets, anti were Y. put a atop to their nefarious ermined to do all in his The LORD ALCTOR said, he was (let practiees, and power 'to committed Aent to the House of Correction for u h 4 Jane Arnold WAS charged with r t oi r th ee in nu l ) ,: t r b m "' sm,„:.eigns. The evidence against the prisoner g " te v r ::: 01 I :1 1 t ' t and she was remanded, to give the proseutit w ne u to e niake - L ' e .° ther inquirfeti. GIIILDIIIat..-Coo Vat V. iirrrOW AND Ww ,..,... mi , m Alm Hatton were chargel with having violently l a 1 • mr ld Cooper. Mr. Hutton had two black eyes, Mts. Hutton et bad s e 44 .-. ditto, and rt scratelted chin ; and Mr. Cooper h a d b °-,-- a roken no and his arm i leaseng. .41 gay it pyour Worship," said Mr. Cooper, 4, these good people live in my boat? plate, end arc shouting murder front morning till night-- " N o , Sir, it does not pleas ro e e," said the Alderman--: do I think they can be good people." Mr. Cooper stared, and proceo.led--44 LftBt Sunday morning as I takes a walk, linty it please your Wo rshi p --. No, Sir, it does not p l eas e me, said his Worship a gain—" for sver was, I tifittk you h ail much better have one to church." Cooper stared again, but went on—n And when i mi . Mr. w hi c h it was about twelve o'clock back from tak in g m y walk, the day ; n 44 wife says to itte, says she, ' Cooper; 4 them Hutton% cc at it again. I wish you'd go down an see what's the m atter with them, for they've. been calling tend hou *and murders,' says she to um, jwit s o. Well, with that I goes down, and, 4. m r . nutton; says I, t what is all this 'ere row about?' s (.40, look!' igs Mr. Hutton. $ Now I'll tell you !. neither ayg fihr, what it is, Mr. Hutton,' tar I, if you and your wife can't agree better than what you do, I shall thank you to look for alto thee lodging, for I won't have such rumpusses in my house any longer,' says Co and hang yourself, Mr. Cooper,' says 'No, I shall not go and hang myself, Mr. Hutton,' says I; 'but I desire you to take notice to quit.' Then if I take notice to quit, do you take that,' says he;' and with that he took and hove the coal scuttle at me, whereby it took me right in the pit of my stomach, and knocked me clean through the back door into the yard, may it please your Worship." " Indeed it does not," said his Worship, "but go on, Mr. Cooper, and be as concise as possible." Mr. Cooper, apparently quite in the dark as to the cause of these repeated interruptions, stared round him for a minute or so, in the hope that somebody would explain to him ; but nobody being kind enough so to do, he proceeded :—" Then, please your Worship, before I could gather up my senses to sceswhat was the matter, he took and let fly at me right and left; and his wife, what stands here, took and broke my head with a pitcher—a new blue and white wash-hand pitcher, what my Missis had give two and ninepenee for only three days before!" This was the climax of Mr. Cooper's complaint ; and he seemed to think it impossible for any thing to be more atrocious than the breaking a man's head with his own two-and-nine-penny blue and white pitcher. " Well, Mr. Hutton," said the Alderman, " what have you to say in excuse for this outrage?" " Look at any wife, please your Worship," said Mr. Hutton ; giving his superannuated slacks a bitch upwards, and sticking one hand in his jacket ixstsktit, while with the thumb of his other hand over his shoulder, lie pointed his worship's attention towards his wife's face—" Look at my wife, please your Worship." I see her," said this Alderman ; " what then?" " Does she look like a woman to be putting a pitcher against any - man's head?" asked Mr. Hutton, with his little crooked hard work'd thumb almost touching the.lady's nose. " I care nothing abouther looks," replied the Alderman ; "the complainant has sworn that she did. But tell me why you, your self attacked him?" Why, your Worship, the matter is as this," replied the im perturbable Mr. Hutton ; " me and my wife has a fan words to gether now anti then,--man and wife like, as the .saying is, and that's nothing to nobody but we'reselves ; for we've been married eleven years come Bartlenty fair, and its cruel hard we can't blow one another up a bit, in a place we pays rent for, without other folks meddling and making with us. But this Mr. Cooper, our landlord here, he's a meddlesome sort of a customer, and I. was told as he should say, if he ever catch'd us blowing up again, he'd kick my bottom, saving your Worship's presence. So when I saw hint coming along the passage last Sunday morning, I sings out, wonder whether Mr. Cooper will kick any bottom to-day?' and, i'fecks ! the word was hardly out of my mouth before he did !—he kicked me a cruel bard kick, which it wasn't likely I wee going to stand quietly ; so we tussled into the back yard, and there we fit, and he got rather the worst of it; but I got two black eyes, and my wife got one, and there was no pitcher put against his heed, I'll swear, hard and fast." Mrs. Hutton declared that every sinnalde her husband had said was zackly true; and that instead of Mr. Cooper pulling item, they ought, by rights, to have pulled Mr. Cooper. The Alderman was of a different opinion ; and ordered that Ur. Hutton should be locked up, whilst his wife went to look for bail. — MATILBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday last, a, gentle man came to this office, and addressing himself to Mr. PYilt, the sitting magistrate, requested to know from him what might he the extent to which the powers of the police establishment of this country could reach as regarded the protection of domestic society against any inroads upon its peace by any individual disposed to disturb it.. _ Mr. Dian, before giving - an answer to so very general an in terrogatory, desired to be informed what the precise object, of the applicant might be in making the inquiry. • The applicant then stated that the motive for asking 'the ques tion was this :—A young lady, the daughter of a friend of his, has lately bad some very hair-breadth escapes from being carried off against her will by a certain gentleman, whose name it was at present unnecessary to mention, but happily, as yet all the Plans that had been laid by this person for the abduction of the young lady have been frustrated by the active vigilance of her fa mily and friends; but although the young lady is at this moment secure in the possession of her relations, it is impossible to say how hing she may continue there, so unrelaxing and indefatigable are the zeal and exertions of her persecutor to accomplish his ob ject ; and not only this, hut he has been heard to vow and swear eternal enmity against all who in any way obstruct hi* views. Under these circontstances, the applicant wished to know if the police authorities could interfere with the peniOlt in question. so as to protect the young lady es well as her friends front his machinations. Mr. DYER said, that under the circumstances stated, the po lice authorities hail no power to interfere; all that themagistratea could do was, in the event of the individual in question committing any assault, or threatening personal violence towards any person, such as to place that person in bodily fear, then to issue a warrant, and have the offending party brought before him, and held to bail to keep the peace towards the individual assaulted or threatened, Or towards all the King's•subjecte as the case might require. The applicant asked if a warrant could not be issued upon the vow of eternal enmity which the. person complained of had made against all who obstructed his views? Mr. Dun said certainly lint. A breach of the peace must have either been absolutelycummitted, or . else so threatened that some individual had cause. of apprehension, before a warrant could issue. A declaration of eternal enmity was ton general in its terms to be construed into a threat of personal violence. The applicant then inquired, if the person complained of could not be placed under the " surveillance" of the police, as is fre quently the ease in France towards prisoners who are known or suspected to have designs upon the peace of society. Mr. DYER replied that the police authorities of this country possessed no such power as that Winded to. The applicant retired evidently much disappointed, and at a loss how to proceed. • - LAMBETH-STRFIT.......Tni Agoltous n .. *DAGO° UE,— Aniongtit the nocturnal' revellers whom either 0 love, war, or wine," generally deposit in that involuntary dormitory--the Round House, one in the person of Mr. William Pigott, a dis penser of the " classics,".and inculcator of morality in that ex treme of Cockney-laud, Brook-street, Ratcliffe, made his appear ance at the dread tribunal of this office on Saturday, charged with caterwauling exhibitions, which disturhed the serene repose of his Majesty's somniferous subjects of Back-road, and assaulting one of those parish potentates called HeaAlboroughs, while in the execution of his authority. The chargee • anti assaultcfe— a spruce little chap, who appeared fully: sensible of his high office, smirked forward to the bench, and told his Worship that - while on the previous evening enjoying himself at the watch-house, and thinking that the influence of his name, as night-constable, would preserve peace and tranquillity in every part of his dominions, hie pleasing reviews were destroyed, awl he was called on by two of the inhabitants of the Back-road to favour them with his presence, which alone could restore the tranquillity that had been broken in on by the pugilistic as well as the amorous powers of Mr. Pigott. He et once repaired to the scene of action ; but his Worship could - scarcely believe it, his presence had no Wed, hie arguments were Mdietened to, and Mr. Bill Pigott would not be convinced that be was the very Headborough whose name inspired such dread.. His authority was not thus to be trifled with ; and as the indignant functionary said, " out of regard to the dignity of my office, and the preser vation of the rights of my successors, londeavoureil to take the refractory subject into custody. liithis I was not very success ful—he was most ronthustical and obstrovallus ; and after porn melting me and lacerating my shirt • (the remnant of which he here exhibited) I brought him to the watch-house. ' The " knight of - the birch"' pleaded that he was assaulted by the g knight of theater on his knowledge-box, and that, on return, ing the compliment with a misty castor under the right listener, and ejecting three of hisivories with his bunch of fives, lie really was not aware of the great dignitary's high office. Hs was dis charged. -- ' TOWN-HALL...--" A bold-Aced villain," nothing indebted to ,his "human face divine," was charged before Mr. Alderman J. J. Sstrrn, as being concerned in a Must daring robbery, coin mined last week upon a sailor, the mate of a coasting vessel, named Spices, who was despoiled in a low brpthel, in QueenAtreet, Miot, of his wearing apparel, watch,. and Upwards of 51; in mo ney, and found naked in' the street ; for which, three of the pri toner's confederates had been previously-committed, and he alone was wanting to complete the Case for the Sessions. This last, .though not least, in the lawless proceeding*, Was taken two days . since, in company With - five others, for attempt in g a robbery, at noon-day, 14 Berinondiey-street ;in which failings they commenced a desperate assault upon the by-standers, to whom they attributed their want of soma; and these six were being conveyed to the Justice,room for re-examination this morn ing, by Kinsey and button, the officers, when the prisoner was b e e t fe t i rubbery, ic;le t,l) re cognized at the door of the 114) by the sailor, who now tswp re positively to him as one of the unit . who entered the room, a nd held the candle, and assisted which lay near him, whilst 1 Kinsey ) upon 010 prionerd tieing put.- t o ' the bar, told the h b r Y oi t i a gu ki fe ng ai li . i s watch, Alderman, that since he had been put into the Office cage, he had changed dress with some of the prisoners. He now appeared in a middling decent black coat and waistcoat, whereas it was a washed white fustian,jacket he was brought from the Compter in. The Prisoner, audaciously.—You lie ! My father brought the coast and waistcoat to me. The Magistrate inquired bow the father had gained access to him, when the officers accounted fur it by saying, the screen be fore the iron bars had been left open for the admission of air, the sage being much crowded. The Prosecutor.—Never mind the dress: he cannot change his face, and I will swear to that' positively. The Prisoner, ferociously, extending his arm towards him.— No, I can't ; but bl—st you, you'd swear to every face in Lon don, to answer your purpose. The previous depositions against his confederates having been read, and those now taken against himself, he was asked what he had to say in his defence, when, carelessly twitching the fur from a foraging cap he held, he said, he could prove be was at home ii and in bed at the time of the robbery. Alderman SMITII said, he might endeavour to prove that at the Sessions, where he was. bound to send hint far trial. The officers had nearly passed him to the door of the office, to be re-locked up, when be made a sudden attempt to reach the prosecutor ; but being intercepted, he held his clenched fist to wards him, while he muttered between his gnashing teeth— " 81--st you, if I could get at you, I'd spoil your swearing again." THE DRY ROT IN SHIPS. We find, in the Second Number of a recently establish ed periodical publication, entitled, " Papers on Naval Architecture and other Subjects connected with Naval Science," some sensible remarks on the soundness of the ships of his Majesty's navy, from which we extract a few observations on " The Disease in Timber called the Dry Rot," about which so much noise was made in a Session of the late Parliament. It is a prevalent but an erroneous opinion, (says the writer), that a new and most destructive disease has at tacked our ships, known by the alarming epithet, the " dry rot." This name is commonly given to that species of rottenness, to which timber is subject, which is distin guished by the growth of fungus : It appears that this term was not inserted in any official document earlier than the year 1808. In the year 1811, when the Queen Char lotte, of 100 guns, was discovered to be in a state of pre mature decay, this term was more generally introduced; since which period it has been too indiscrimately applied, and its effects greatly exaggerated. This disease has, however, existed, although known by different names, and its destructive effects have been felt and regretted from most remote periods of history. The paper proceeds to trace the causes of the disease, and then gives a summary of the precautions taken in the dock-yards for its prevention and removal; which is most worthy of attention, as it shows in a few words that there are grounds for the completest confidence in the soundness and efficiency of our navy. The numerous nostrums which have been proposed for the prevention and cure of the dry rot have tended much more to give a false impression of the prevalence of this disease than to remove or diminish it. Mr. Knowles, of the Navy Office, in his work entitled, " An Inquiry into the Means whicci have been taken to preserve the British Navy," has given an account of different trials which have been made to prevent or cure the dry rot, with the results of the experiments. This work shows that the Navy Board has been always desirous of trying the proposed methods, when they could in any way be shown to possess any reasonable appearance of success. The methods which are at present adopted in his Ma jesty's Dock-yards, for the preservation of timber, are such as have been suggested by an examination of its nature, and the.circumstafices in which it is placed in ships, and which have been proved by experience to have been well calculated to produce this desirable effect.— The principal methods are seasoning the timber under roofs; iintnerion in salt water ; taking off the sap-wood from the tital)er wit •it tweti; covering the !Itit face% of the timber with mineral tar and paint, particular at tention being paid to all the surfaces which come in contact with each other; and the injection of a mixture of vege table tar and whitening into ships' bottoms. Placing tim ber under roofs, the logs being kept apart from each other, is found to be an excellent method of seasoning timber, by admitting a free circulation of air without an exposure to the rain. The immersion of timber in water is found to be an expeditious method of drawing out the juices of the weed ; and salt water is preferable to fresh water for this purpose, on account of the anti-putrescent property of salt, which, though less effective on vegetable than animal matter, is useful in checking the decay of timber. Taking off the sap-wood, which speedily becomes rotten, prevents the communication of the decay to the adjoining heart-wood. Covering the surfaces of timber' with mineral tar or paint keeps the timber from being rent by the air, and also prevents the seed of the fungus, which may be in the outer lamina of the timber, from vegetating by the exclusion of atmospheric air from it. The seed also which may be deposited from the gases on the stir- . faces of the mineral tar and paint will not vegetate. It is also particularly useful, when two kinds of timber arc brought together, by preventing the fermentation which' would arise from the union of different vegetable princi-, pies. The injection of the tar and whitening into the s hip s ' bottoms has been found.to be of very great benefit in preserving the timbers, by its effectually preventing the growth of the fungus; the openings between the timbers, which would otherwise be imperfectly filled, and the rents in the timbers, in which places the fungus would be most likely to vegetate, being, by this means, completely filled, the necessary attendant on vegetation is excluded. It probable that the great advantage of the injection of tar, &c. into the' nterstices between the timbers, and in the rents of the wood, is not yet fully known. In addition to these preventives, the ships are built and repaired under roofs, which prevent the rain from settling in the rents of the timbers and the openings between then,. In his Majesty's ships in ordinary, particular attention has also been paid to preserve them, from decay, by put ting temporary roofs over them, taking down part of the bulk-heads in the hold, and leaving out strakes in the deck, and leaving openings in the truss-work between the ports, to promote a free circulation of air through them. It may be remarked, however, that a. free current of air through the ships, which is of very great advantage in pre venting decay, is attended with the disadvantage of causing the timber U. shrink, which is injurious to the strength of the fabric, by destroying, in some degree, the benefit of fitting the pieces of work closely together, tech nically called Paying well,', to:give stiffness to the parts of a ship, and thereby brings a great strain on the fasten ings. The maximum of advantage is therefore to be ob tained by giving such a circulation of air as may be suM. cient to prevent decay, without causing the timber to shrink too much. Experience is tending fast to ascertain the ex tent to which this principle may be carried with th e greatest advantage t o th e service. The result of the examination of the Bellerophon is next themselves ;-..the v ship, moreover, remainin g op e n mentioned, when, t o th e discomfiture of the dry -rot alarm ists, the opinion of th e nava l officers, shipwright officers, and carpenters of th e N avy , was unanimous as to t h e ex cellency of her state for several weeks, th a t all whos f th o w same.might, The article by personal inspection, satisfy helnei e concludes-- It might be thought fair to infer, that if such is the state of a ship which w as part i cu l ar ly selected as ft proof of th e decay of the B r i t i s h ' Navy, tha whole of his Maj est y' s ships might be c ons id ere d eq ually sound. inn disce °nines? But thi s wou ld b e claiming too much. It is enoughto say th a t t h e str i c t examination of this ship and others which were stated to be rotten, with the constant examination of all th e s hip s in the navy, f u ll y proves t h e ir very high stat e o f p reservat i on . It i s enough to k now that all that can be done for their preservation is done, and that the attention given to them is productive of the most satisfactory results, TRADE WITH COLOMBIA. BOGOTA, APRIL 29, 1826. Sir,--I beg to transmit to you the copy - of a decree, conceding to the port of Esmeraldas and the bay of Carac ens, on the Pacific Ocean, an exemption for fifteen years of half the duties payable on imports and exports; and I beg likewise to state, for the guidance of British commer cial interests, that the advantages held out by the decree cannot, for the present, be encompassed but at the ex pence of great, although not insurmountable difficulties. The small village of Esmeraldas is about eight miles above the mouth of its river, and is little more than ac cessible to canoes, and as there is no port at the mouth of the river, vessels can find no shelter, and are besides ex poosed to the inconvenience of having their anchors choked by the sand which the river, in its general course of four miles an hour, brings with it. Indeed, the tide never en ters it, for the volume of its waters, extending over a mile and a half at its mouth, drives back the sea, at every ebb, to the distance of half a league. The port of Atacames, about five leagues to the south west of the Vigia, or " Look-out-house,' at the mouth of the Esmeraldas, is sheltered to the South, from whence, with slight deviations to East or West, the wind blows on the whole of the coast for 10 months in the year. Large vessels may anchor in five, six, and seven fathoms, within 300 yards of Point Sua, to the westward of the village of Atacames; and small vessels can enter, if necessary, within the Point, and anchor in three fathoms. Atacames is separated by a thick and unexplored forest of only about 12 miles from Esmeraldas, and although it enjoys the advantages described, and its climate is tem pered by the sea breeze—the air of Esmeraldas being close and stagnant—yet it is necessary that British merchants should be informed, that goods imported at Atacames will not, for the present, enjoy the'exemptions of the decree. The advantages of a commercial inlet by Esmeraldas to the department of the Equator, and particUlarly to the province of Pichincha, on the conditions of the decree, would be the demand on foreign trade by a population of nearly 300,000 persons, Quito (having 60,000) and its surrounding towns of tabalo, Ibarra, Latacurga Ambato, and other smaller places, alone possessing nearly the half of the number. The access from Esmeraldas, to Quito, which would be come the principal commercial depot, is by four days of water conveyance to the port of Canigue (one day and a half being only necessary to descend), the hire of a canoe and three men for the distance, not much more than 70 miles, being about 51. From the port of Canigue to Quito, a distance of 85 miles, in the main part through almost impervious forests, inaccessible to beasts of burden, goods are conveyed by Indians at the charge of six dollars for a cargo of 1001 b. weight. The Bay of Caraccas, in the province of Manabi, and situated in half a degree of south latitude, affords safe an chorage, but is surrounded by deep forests, for the present less practicable as a communication with the more popu lated districts of the department of Guayaquil than by Esmeraldas. Amidst the rich vegetation of the uncleared fertile dis tricts of the Esmeraldian coast, are the commercial pro ductions of tobacco, cotton, cocoa, and rice, besides tim ber,._ tortoiseshell, and hides. It may not be unimportant to observe, that the pri soners taken during the disaffections in Pasto are em ployed in slowly opening a road from Quito towards Esmeraldas. I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, JAMES HENDERSON, llis Britannic Majesty's Consul-General. John Bennett, Esq., Lloyd's. LAW GRANTING EXEMPTIONS IN FAVOUR OF Tint OPINING 01' Tilt ROAD FROM ISMERALDAS TO QUITO. The Senate and House of Representatives, &c. Considering, That the province of Pichincha is in want of a port by which it may import the articles of its eon inamptiou, a►ul import its produce and manufactures., 'mid without which it cannot nourish, and that.tho roads which may be opened from Quito to the port of Diluent Was, in I one direction, and to the bay of Caraccas, in the province of Manabi, in another, offer desirable advantages for those districts, decree— Art. 1. The Executive Power shall facilitate the open ing of the roads from Quito to Esmeraldas in one direc tion, and to the bay of Caraccas by another, either by inviting speculators through the medium of the press, in and out of the Republic; or by giving an impulse to the undertaking with the natural influence of the Go vernment. Art.. 2. An absolute exemption from all direct or indi rect taxes paid to the. State, and from tithes and first fruits, is granted to all , the inhabitants of the ports of Esmeraldas and Bay of Caraccas, and of the neighbour hood of their roads, and to those who may settle there, provided they build houses or settle near the said roads and towns. Art. 3. All sorts of merchandise imported, and produce exported, through the port of Esmeraldas, and the Bay of Caraccas, shall only pay half the import and export du.; ties paid in the other ports of the Republic conformably to law. Spirituous liquors are excepted, which shall pay on im portation the duties assigned by law. Art. 4. The favours and exemptions granted by the pre ceding articles shall last for the term of 15 years, reckon ing from the day of the publication of this law. Given in Bogota, March 10, 1826, by the Congress, &c. Approved by the Executive Power, March 18, 1826. Published in the Govetnment Gazette, April 2,•1826. THE ARMY. LtvutrooL, JULY 22.—The '73d Regiment of Foot marched into this town yesterday, amidst a heavy shower of lain, 'and em barked this dayon hoard the steam-vessel for Dublin. The depot of the 42d (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, if ordered to march from Edinburgh to Paisley. The depot of the 74th Regiment of Infantry has received orders to march from Stirling tnEdinburgh. Detachments of Recruits arrived in town on Saturday morning, from Bristol, on route to join their respective corps and depots. DEXTERITY.--A careless barber, trimming customer's ears, put him to great pain and uneasiness. " Are you trimming my left ear now ?" says the man, " No, Sir, not till I have 'done the right. "Oh ! only I thought by what I felt that . you were passing through to the left ear without going round. —Cht nese Jests. FAC C T U tI i Paper, we noticed a Meeting purpose, as appears from the E ° R u s s .—... Bl i7 l aeßplrPrecleOdNin g l , oll OUR DISTRESSED MANui Meeting has been held among assisting in N ew Y o o u r r k ; t f a o r r y the i'l g plwls purpose manufacturers t ; e suggesting b bl u a t ck a Comemore populationm ai's singular of i Jamaica, for a similar fol lowing extract of the proceedings, published in The Public Advertiser of that Island :---‘ We bin berry sorry a i n a ',lnland no hab bittle to nyam. Cum for yerry Massa read in him paper torra day dat dem Massa negat, ma ke we all put down little or much too , you no stubby dem make behbraba sun poor buck bin make one paper sixty-three foot s t ldso i e ee i n i l gi d di f e fcdo : I n er e l n itnivimlwv,oeseenf:ofserralyditeesiv sixteen : ; mans; dtce Gtoher 1 tb:uenu.t: hours tfy d oe :l e . dem bucks 1 i npd m oa c oyi k ir,o r a tabi nni f lg o igs o e fool oe t ff o t 0 0 0 e aor m onw u dgo c ere l! foo dem bittle foo nyam :poor samitings l l We will beg Massa foo ded wid hungry bellie, and we beg ebery nega in dis vere c untry foo do de same." Th e names of 122 subscribers we willyive to-morrow, and we heartily wish that every lu f bs or e t r u i l b ut e t e a sdoios distresses e ‘ s y s o e u s l d o f t t h h e e y individual in the empire would follow the laudable exam °thve • , ls)uleffiheeiernet s s e u t ni tr them vi — ate h "operatives'' in England. We understand that the money subscribed, amounting to 27/. 4s. 2d. will be sent home by the present . .vueket, free of pence, THE HARVEST. The wheat harvest has commenced in the neighbourhood of city. The crop will be large, and of most excellent quality. tl.is .—Canterbury "japer. The wheat harvest has commenced throughout the west of England, and the accounts both of the quality and bulk of the crop are highly satisfactory. The plantation of hops, at Orchard Portman, near Taunton, is in a remarkably thriving state•---De vixes Gazette. The wheat harvest is now in almost general operation through out Devonshire, and the produce is bountiful. Oats arta barley are also abundant crops, except on light soils, where the want of rain has been most felt. The wheat and barley harvest is now becoming general hz this neighbourhood. Though the Lent grain, as we have alre.tElY stated, is generally a failure, the wheat is fine ; the produce WO probably be little below an average crop. In some districts, the rains last week proved very serviceable to the late sown barley.— Worcester Journal. CAUTION. --- A man of the name of Price, who is in the habit of calling at a house and asking the ser vant if her master is at home, if answered in the negative, takes from a blue bag a stone bottle, mid informs the servant her master has just purchased it, and requested him to apply to her for Ss. 6d. • When the bottle is opened, the contents are found to be merely ink and water. He has already found 150 customers in the neighbourhood of Bloomsbury. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—Arrived here on Suit day last, the Latona, of London, James Paterson, master, from Cape Breton, with timber. When off the Mull of Kintyre, Captain Paterson discovered a small boat with two men and a woman on board, labouring hard to heir up against a tremendous sea. With genuine sympathy lie bore down to relieve them from their perilous condition; the yawning waves threatened every moment to over whelm them, but he succeeded in getting them on board of the Latona, where he treated them with much humanity till they were landed here.—The story of this frail bark, about 13 feet keel,and her worn-out crew, is no less remark able than it is interesting. Samuel Addison, master of the boat, proceeded from his abode at Birsay, in Orkney, with lobsters, for Mr. Davidson, in Stromness, on day, the 7th current, accompanied by J. Sinclair, who 1011 engaged with him in this employment, and his wife, who went to Stromness to procure medical advice. After de• livering their fish, they set out from Stromness on the evening of the same day, directing their course to their native haven at Birsay, but were soon enveloped in a most impenetrable fog, by which they lost every trace of the land; and then, under the influence of the strong currents that are so remarkable in those seas, without the aid of compass or any other guide, surrounded by a dense atmok phere, and the wind, in such circumstances, genera,' treacherously variable, they kept steering such a course they concluded would catch some part of the land; but the wind having shifted during night, and being misled 14 this inconstant agent, they were carried by the tide through the Pentland Firth, which changed their course to quite an opposite direction. About two P.M., on Ss:. turday, the fog cleared up, but being then out of sight of land, they took the sun as their guide to recover their native shore,buthaving reversed their position during nigh t . : they were rapidly extending their distance from it, an in this way they kept, unconscious of their error or their danger, till about seven P.M., when they were pickedoEbi;' the Elizabeth, Morrison, master, Prussian ship, from lija' mel, bound to Wexford, in Ireland, with timher---than forty miles out of sight of land in the North Sea. Cal); tain Morrison behaved to them with great liumanitp kept them for eight days on board, till, at Adamson On request, he was turned off between the North of Ireland and the Mull of Kintyre, with the intention of holding 0 0 . the latter coast, where, as has been already memtiotted, they were again picked up by the Laiona, when again 4 1 imminent danger of perishing. It need hardly be a dded, that they are fit objects of compassion and liberality , t° enable them to regain their desolate and distressed WA' of ha v ti ,e v e l o lr g l helpless children, o c h w il ( d ir e e s u p , a roendtehoeoTffnheeetychyeesserib recovering necessary biavweiedrenrienwigfilotlflitalt:teti,r who t eg e vu e ei trrieyOsi to a a tt e i s n ko ; : l o imid it is presumed that their case wily f at present destitute of rously afforded th w ti subsistence. wthbeeny being sent lodged with a Mrs. Stewart, East Quay-lane, charge of a few individuals, to whom their misfortune s became first known.---Greenock Advertiser of TuesdaY• COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING' LAST WSIX. Wheat. Barley. Per Quarter. And0ver.......... L to I. 52 56 70 56 64 69 58 64 I. to it. 24.1 30 30 33 32 36 Oats. Arundel Bridgewater ....... Brljt'ol„ Carllfle. Colchester Dayentry Doncaster liexham Leeds 50 el 50 64 56 60 56 60 60 70 56 56 61 65 59 65 31% 4U Leicester Lincoln Loughborough*... 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On the 21st inst., John Stewart, Esq •s of the AA n s ' " In late of Demerara, aged Ou the 20th inst., a t his ho use in Green-street , G rull ' - t square, Janina Milbourne, Esq .1 in Si, formerly resia 6l the Strand. . Qn the 6 th init.: in the 90th year or his age, af t l n il e V 1 11 tall, Mr. James 1 1 11htter, of Stoke, in the county of 113 her' 3 1 ;,,J. e lo n g a respectable resident at St. John's Newfouo",6o, On Friay last, in Wood-street, at the honse'a her so , the wife, of John Barwell Brown, Esq. , On Tuesday, th e Iti t h i nst ., a t Ware, George Cass: Eai r i" factor, ag e d 75. of 631 On Saturday eve n i n g Lut, Win. Green, Esq. , age d Elillbank-row, Westminster. of l' gr On Satu r d a y morning, the 2 21 inst., in the 66th year4oo. ate: Alm Mason, relict of the late Mr. John Elason, i